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@Calilasseia

Let me introduce you to proper discourse 101.

Step 1. Whenever a statement is first presented, that purports to inform us of a fact, that statement is an assertion.

Step 2. When an assertion is first presented, it possesses the status “truth value unknown”. As a corollary, an assertion does not equal fact.

Step 3. The only way to remedy that deficit, is to test the assertion. Either by finding real world observational data that will inform us about the truth-value of the assertion, or deriving a formal proof/disproof thereof in an appropriate formal system. Both of these quantities constitute evidence for the truth-value of the assertion.

Step 4. In the absence of any of the aforementioned evidence, the assertion is safely dicardable, because it provides no useful knowledge.

Sheldon,

Why would you discard the flood story if it passes step 3?

Wouldn’t it make more sense that, compared to today, at a time where there was no technology to communicate and influence others, over large distances, with cultural separation, linguistic separation and oceanic separation, and without cancel culture that we can safely conclude argumentum ad populum fallacy is not the case when it comes to the flood story? Because at that point in time the same basic story was told independently of others. Please note that the details that overlap are eerily similar. I have spent time reading the oral and written accounta of flood storues in different parts of the world and even i was amazed by the similarities.

@Sheldon

Nope, an argumentum ad populum (not popslum (sic) ) fallacy is a claim something is true based on a bare appeal to numbers, the claim was yours (that the human genome was evidence for a deity), the evidence that in the NAS’s the elite experts in the related field are almost universally atheists, is objective evidence they do not agree with your claim, so either you know better than all those elite scientific experts in biology about what the scientific evidence indicates, or your claim was lying bs. In case I am being too subtle it’s the last one, and I have given you weeks to offer one word of explanation to justify your claim, and we have nada.